Mamadou Diop and his band deliver a hypnotic high octane World Fusionexperience that makes the spirit dance and leaves a warm smile to theheart. For more information about Mamadou Diop visit www.mamadou.com

Special guests, Black Rebels, are an intercultural reggae music familyfrom Africa and America, promoting peace, love & unity among peopleand nations. For more information about Black Rebels visitwww.blackrebels.com_______________________________________________WaDaBo_Updates mailing list, WaDaBo_Updates@wadabo.comSubscribe, Unsubscribe or View Archive:http://lists.wadabo.com/mailman/listinfo/wadabo_updates_____________________________________________This email is brought to you by www.WADaBo.com (West African Dance in Boston)

A full listing of regularly held West African Dance and Drum classes taught by master artists in and around Boston can be found at our website:www.wadabo.comWADaBo is an entirely volunteer effort, if you would like to help out in anyway, please contact wadabo@gmail.comWADaBo is a collective of individuals interested in promoting and enjoying Dance, Drum, Music, Language and Culture from West African and the DiasporaIf you would like to be removed from this list, or only contacted for certain events (performances, workshops, etc), please go tohttp://lists.wadabo.com/mailman/listinfo/wadabo_updatesand subscribe to this list. Pass it on!

We invited the hottest African dance and music artists in the world to join us this summer for the second annual Ndaje Festival in beautiful Cambridge, MA June 26-29th, 2008! For tickets, registraton and vendor information, visit www.papendiaye.com/ndajefestival!

The Ndaje Festival 2008 is a fun-filled, four-day Boston event that invites everyone to come together and celebrate the spirit and cultures of Africa !

Complete with a live theatrical performance featuring master musicians and dancers from West Africa and the US, this festival will allow participants to experience traditional West African drum and dance classes taught by world renownedartists, taste traditional West African cuisine and indulge in the variety of authentic African clothing, crafts and accessories brought by festival vendors!

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Providence classes will NOT be held Memorial Day weekend but otherwise will continue throughout the summer except for the following dates:

June 8th, July 13th, and August 3rd

Please arrive ON TIME for class (11AM for drumming and 12PM for dance) as we cannot prop the door. We will leave someone's cell phone number on a note on the door if you are late so you can call to be let in, but please try to be on time.

A full listing of regularly held West African Dance and Drum classes taught by master artists in and around Boston can be found at our website:www.wadabo.comWADaBo is an entirely volunteer effort, if you would like to help out in anyway, please contact wadabo@gmail.comWADaBo is a collective of individuals interested in promoting and enjoying Dance, Drum, Music, Language and Culture from West African and the DiasporaIf you would like to be removed from this list, or only contacted for certain events (performances, workshops, etc), please go tohttp://lists.wadabo.com/mailman/listinfo/wadabo_updatesand subscribe to this list. Pass it on!

Deraldo Ferreira, founder and director of the Brazilian Cultural Center of New England, is also the founder and leader of the Samba Tremeterra batería. For the past 20 years, he has run the Brazilian Cultural Center while teaching capoeira at the Center and at local schools and colleges. Additionally, continues to be committed to his lifelong love of music. Deraldo has been a drummer since early childhood, and has taught samba drumming since the mid 1990s.

In 1998, he and his students collaborated to start a professional samba group which, from then on, entertained at regular samba parties at the Center as well as at other events throughout the region. At this time, Samba Tremeterra is larger and has extensive experience performing exhilarating shows, both alone and with local and international bands and vocalists.

A full listing of regularly held West African Dance and Drum classes taught by master artists in and around Boston can be found at our website:www.wadabo.comWADaBo is an entirely volunteer effort, if you would like to help out in anyway, please contact wadabo@gmail.comWADaBo is a collective of individuals interested in promoting and enjoying Dance, Drum, Music, Language and Culture from West African and the DiasporaIf you would like to be removed from this list, or only contacted for certain events (performances, workshops, etc), please go tohttp://lists.wadabo.com/mailman/listinfo/wadabo_updatesand subscribe to this list. Pass it on!

PAPE IS TEACHING this FRIDAY, 5/9/08 at the YWCA of Cambridge! But class on Sunday is cancelled due to the holiday. He would like to wish all the mothers a Happy Mother's Day!

Ndaje Festival Concert rehearsals will begin this Friday, May 9th after the dance class from 9-10pm at the Cambridge YWCA. To find out more about the Ndaje Festival 2008, please visit www.papendiaye.com/ndajefestival.

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Pape N'Diaye holds regular African dance classes in djembe and sabar every weekend. Come and sweat with him this Friday and Sunday in Cambridge, MA

THURSDAY, MAY 15 - Group Saloum at the Lizard Lounge!_______________________________________________WaDaBo_Updates mailing list, WaDaBo_Updates@wadabo.comSubscribe, Unsubscribe or View Archive:http://lists.wadabo.com/mailman/listinfo/wadabo_updates_____________________________________________This email is brought to you by www.WADaBo.com (West African Dance in Boston)

A full listing of regularly held West African Dance and Drum classes taught by master artists in and around Boston can be found at our website:www.wadabo.comWADaBo is an entirely volunteer effort, if you would like to help out in anyway, please contact wadabo@gmail.comWADaBo is a collective of individuals interested in promoting and enjoying Dance, Drum, Music, Language and Culture from West African and the DiasporaIf you would like to be removed from this list, or only contacted for certain events (performances, workshops, etc), please go tohttp://lists.wadabo.com/mailman/listinfo/wadabo_updatesand subscribe to this list. Pass it on!

Monday, May 05, 2008

Thank you to everyone for sending in your votes online for yourfavorite African dance and music instructors! We took your advice andinvited the hottest African dance and music artists in the world tojoin us this summer for the second annual Ndaje Festival in beautifulCambridge, MA June 26-29th, 2008!

About the FestivalThe Ndaje Festival 2008 is a fun-filled, four-day Boston event thatinvites everyone to come together and celebrate the spirit andcultures of Africa !

Complete with a live theatrical performance featuring master musiciansand dancers from West Africa and the US, this festival will allowparticipants to experience traditional West African drum and danceclasses taught by world renowned artists, taste traditional WestAfrican cuisine and indulge in the variety of authentic Africanclothing, crafts and accessories brought by festival vendors!

Ndaje and celebrate with us!Take advantage of deep discounts! Pre-register online on or beforeJune 25, 2008!

A full listing of regularly held West African Dance and Drum classes taught by master artists in and around Boston can be found at our website:www.wadabo.comWADaBo is an entirely volunteer effort, if you would like to help out in anyway, please contact wadabo@gmail.comWADaBo is a collective of individuals interested in promoting and enjoying Dance, Drum, Music, Language and Culture from West African and the DiasporaIf you would like to be removed from this list, or only contacted for certain events (performances, workshops, etc), please go tohttp://lists.wadabo.com/mailman/listinfo/wadabo_updatesand subscribe to this list. Pass it on!

Saturday, May 03, 2008

CHANGE OF PLANS!Afro-Cuban class tomorrow will be taught by Lizz Cannon.Rosemarie Roberts is ill.

She will be teaching on Sunday the 11th of May instead from 12:00 to 1:30.Please pass the word.

Rosamaria Roberts, Dancer, Choreographer and Educator, hails from New York with Puerto Rican and Cuban roots. Since the age of 5, she has been moved by the spirit of dance. Winner of the 1997 Ethnic Dance Award for her commitment to teaching and peforming African diasporic dance and its history to youth and adults in the U.S. and the Caribbean, Rosamaria is an interpreter of traditional and folkloric Cuban, Haitian, Puerto Rican, Congolese and Brazilian dance forms. Her dance and teaching celebrates the historical, cultural and spiritual richness of Bantu, Congo, Dahomey and Yoruba peoples found throughout the Caribbean and African Diaspora. Rosamaria has taught workshops to people of all ages and performed to diverse audiences at a variety of venues in the Caribbean and the United States including holistic centers such as Esalen Institute, Omega Institute and Kripalu Center; institutes of higher education, including Yale University, Mount Holyoke College, Howard University and Connecticut Colege; and in urban high schools as a resident teaching artist through Arts Connection and Working Playground. She has danced with Richard Gonazalez and Ochumare and performed as a guest artist with M'Bewe Escobar, Cinque Folkloric Dance Theater and Maimouna Keita Co. She has also choreographed works for Retumba, and was an ensemble member for over ten years. Rosamaria directed Echoes of Brown (2004), a multi-genre performance project marking the 50th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Educationn, directed and choreographed Sweet Freedom for El Puente Academy of Peace and Justice, and choreographed for Common Green/Common Ground, a collaborative performance created by community gardeners, Bronx River advocates, and NYU Drama and dramatic writing students. In 2006, Rosamaria co-directed Cultural Traditions Dance Program at the Jacob's Pillow School which focused on Afro-Dominican, Afro-Cuban, and Afro-Puerto Rican foikloric dance. She holds a Ph.D. candidate in Social Psychology and is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Education at Connecticut College.

A full listing of regularly held West African Dance and Drum classes taught by master artists in and around Boston can be found at our website:www.wadabo.comWADaBo is an entirely volunteer effort, if you would like to help out in anyway, please contact wadabo@gmail.comWADaBo is a collective of individuals interested in promoting and enjoying Dance, Drum, Music, Language and Culture from West African and the DiasporaIf you would like to be removed from this list, or only contacted for certain events (performances, workshops, etc), please go tohttp://lists.wadabo.com/mailman/listinfo/wadabo_updatesand subscribe to this list. Pass it on!

Thursday, May 01, 2008

If you miss Habib Koite in Somerville on Saturday night, head down toProvidence for his show.Bad news = you have to drive a little bit.GREAT News = Lupo's has TONS of danceable space for the audience!!

A full listing of regularly held West African Dance and Drum classes taught by master artists in and around Boston can be found at our website:www.wadabo.comWADaBo is an entirely volunteer effort, if you would like to help out in anyway, please contact wadabo@gmail.comWADaBo is a collective of individuals interested in promoting and enjoying Dance, Drum, Music, Language and Culture from West African and the DiasporaIf you would like to be removed from this list, or only contacted for certain events (performances, workshops, etc), please go tohttp://lists.wadabo.com/mailman/listinfo/wadabo_updatesand subscribe to this list. Pass it on!

Also, please remember to come out for Fatou N'Diaye's Community Show this Sunday, May 4th! It will be a wonderful show with many new and familiar faces on stage. It is a wonderful chance to support the diversity and energy in our community.

A full listing of regularly held West African Dance and Drum classes taught by master artists in and around Boston can be found at our website:www.wadabo.comWADaBo is an entirely volunteer effort, if you would like to help out in anyway, please contact wadabo@gmail.comWADaBo is a collective of individuals interested in promoting and enjoying Dance, Drum, Music, Language and Culture from West African and the DiasporaIf you would like to be removed from this list, or only contacted for certain events (performances, workshops, etc), please go tohttp://lists.wadabo.com/mailman/listinfo/wadabo_updatesand subscribe to this list. Pass it on!

About

Welcome to the Blog of WADaBo (West African Dance in Boston)! We are a group of individuals engaged in a collective effort to promote West African Dancing, Drumming, Music and Culture in and around Boston.

There are many master teachers here who teach a myriad of classes, and a vibrant community of students. We hope that this site can serve as a mode of communication amongst this community, a means of promotion for teachers based in Boston, as well as those who are going to be holding guest workshops here.

This Blog serves primarily as a public archive of / alternative consumption method for the WADaBo email list. If you would like to contribute to either, please get in touch. wadabo [at] g mail d o t c o m